Job Summary

•    Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) aims to become the leading Cross-Border Affluent Bank and Wealth Manager, through strengthening our Affluent continuum, unlock network value via International Banking, accelerate Private Banking growth, and future proof our business with strong focus on risk, talent, underpinned by scalable digital platform and operational capabilities.

•    WRB will invest in building client-centric digital wealth and retail journeys that expands our wealth solutions and upgrade advisory capabilities, tailor our international propositions, uplift our ability to drive client upgrades and move along the client continuum, enhance our frontline enablers to support our growth in relationship managers, and strengthen our support functions in line with our growth aspirations.  

•    We are seeking a highly skilled Change Delivery Lead to drive standardisation, simplification, and achieve productivity uplift of change delivery management across WRB.  This role will be responsible for designing and implementing consistent practices for financials forecasting, capitalisation ratio, and market recharge mechanism – ensuring financial transparency, compliance, and operational efficiency.  The successful candidate will collaborate with Finance, Product and Segment stakeholders (both Group and Country), and Digital Wealth and Retail Journey team to embed standardised processes, tools, and governance models that enable scalability and value realisation.

Strategy

•    Define and drive the change strategy for financials transformation in alignment with the bank’s strategic objectives, pivot from project-based to capacity-based funding model.
•    Ensure capitalisation and recharge models support value delivery and portfolio optimisation.
•    Influence senior executives to adopt standardised approaches that enable global scalability and cost efficiency.

Business

•    Partner with business units and markets to align financial practices with commercial and operational objectives, including Regulatory requirements on digital investment reporting.
•    Ensure recharge mechanisms are transparent, equitable, and support the bank’s operating model.
•    Translate complex financial concepts into business outcomes, enabling informed decision-making at senior level.
•    Partner with Change Enablement team to embed a data-driven approach in traceability between financials to demand-outcome-supply.

Key Responsibilities

Processes

•    Design, implement, and embed standardised processes for financials management, capitalisation, and market recharge.
•    Drive process simplification, automation, and digitisation to uplift productivity and reduce manual interventions.
•    Establish clear framework for financial forecasting, reporting, and cost control.

People & Talent

•    Build capability across finance, change, and delivery teams to adopt new financial management practices.
•    Lead training, knowledge sharing, and communications to ensure consistent understanding and adoption across WRB portfolio.
•    Act as a change champion, fostering a culture of financial discipline and accountability.
•    Demonstrate growth mindset, building a culture of client centricity, agility, and accountability through standardised metrics and measurement, ensuring everyone are drivers and owners of client outcomes
•    Embody the role of a constructive challenger, leveraging data/facts in facilitating the right discussion

Risk Management

•    Identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with capitalisation policies, cost allocations, and recharge practices.
•    Ensure processes comply with banking regulations, accounting standards, and internal financial policies.
•    Proactively monitor and resolve issues that could impact financial reporting accuracy or regulatory compliance. 

Governance

•    Establish and oversee governance forums to monitor adoption and effectiveness of new practices.
•    Ensure consistent application of financial management, in line with internal policies and standards across WRB portfolio.
•    Provide senior management with transparent reporting on progress, adoption, risks, and financial impact.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

•    WRB Digital Head
•    WRB CFO
•    WRB Digital Change Delivery and Enablement team
•    WRB Cost Management team
•    WRB Segment and Product Heads
•    WRB Cluster Heads
•    WRB Portfolio Team
•    Group Investment Management team
•    Relevant Functions in Risk, Compliance, Finance, Legal & HR
•    Programme/Project Accountable Executives and Managers

Other Responsibilities

•    Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in Wealth and Retail Banking.  Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Our Ideal Candidate

•    10 years of experience in investment financials management and governance, with 5 years in a senior leadership or global role.
•    Proven track record in robust financials management, strong understanding of capitalisation rules (IAS38), and country recharge methodology
•    Experience working with cross-functional teams in a global and complex organization.
•    Proven ability to provide guidance and execute in an agile way with teams across geographic locations

Education

•    Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, economics, or a related field (MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred).
•    Relevant professional qualifications (e.g., CSPO/CSM/Agile Leadership/PMP) are a plu

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Financial Forecasting
•    Software Capitalisation
•    Country Recharge
•    Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to motivate, mentor, and develop talent.
•    Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
•    Excellent connected listening skills to establish strong understanding and trusted relationship with key stakeholders.
•    In-depth knowledge of change delivery best practice with strong ability to manage ambiguity.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

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